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Simplicity, Equality, and Slavery//florida.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5744/florida/9781683400110.001.0001/upso-9781683400110
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9781683400110.jpg" alt="Simplicity, Equality, and SlaveryAn Archaeology of Quakerism in the British Virgin Islands, 1740-1780"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>John M. Chenoweth</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9781683400110</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>University Press of Florida</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Archaeology, Historical Archaeology</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.5744/florida/9781683400110.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2017</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2017-09-21</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>How do both a religious community and a religion change when their members must face contradictions between their ideals and the society in which they live? This question is answered here by using archaeological and archival information to trace the life of a group of Quakers (members of the Religious Society of Friends) residing in the British Virgin Islands between 1741 and 1763. A group of mostly poor, white planters formed this unique community inspired by the ideals of equality, simplicity, and peace. However, these ideals were enacted in a slave society, with all or nearly all the members holding enslaved people themselves, attempting to improve their lot through the violent appropriation of labor from others on plantations. Combining archival and archaeological evidence, the book shows how modern expectations of “Quakerly” behavior are not met in this community. Instead, we find Quakerism being negotiated in creative ways that fit within a slavery-based economy and society: through foods, relationships with other planters and the enslaved people themselves, and social advancement. Community is often conceived as something every member shares equally, but the historical archaeology approach and anthropological analysis of this volume shows how social groups like religions are full of conflicting perspectives and goals—in this case, conflicts which led to the group’s end after one generation. By examining how one small group interpreted Quakerism’s ideals in the contrasting environment of the eighteenth-century Caribbean, we learn what a religion is and how it matters in the daily lives of its members.</p>John M. Chenoweth2017-09-21Bioarchaeology and Climate Change//florida.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5744/florida/9780813036670.001.0001/upso-9780813036670
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780813036670.jpg" alt="Bioarchaeology and Climate ChangeA View from South Asian Prehistory"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Gwen Robbins Schug</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780813036670</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>University Press of Florida</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.5744/florida/9780813036670.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2011</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2012-01-19</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>During the second millennium B.C. hundreds of villages were founded in peninsular India. The people of the Deccan Chalcolithic period relied on farming drought-resistant barley and wheat. They raised cattle, sheep, and goats; maintained hunting and foraging traditions; and utilized the resources gathered from local lakes and forest habitats for subsistence, construction, and fuel. Throughout this time, Chalcolithic people successfully colonized the peninsula despite the challenges of living in a semi-arid climate and unpredictable monsoon rainfall. By 1400 B.C. their settlements were thriving, populations were growing, and large regional centers were established. Yet, around 1000 B.C., the majority of these settlements were deserted. This book uses evidence from paleoclimate research, archaeology, and human skeletal material to examine life and death at three villages occupied during this time. Innovative methods of bioarchaeological analysis reveal complexity in the interactions between humans and their environment and suggest a new model for understanding this period of India's prehistory. Questions about human interactions with the environment thousands of years ago in India are interesting from an academic standpoint, but the insights we gain into the past are relevant in a contemporary context as we face the consequences of continued population growth, unsustainable lifestyles, degradation of local environments, and large-scale climate change. Having a longer view of the challenges, strategies, and consequences of human–environment interactions may prove helpful as we all develop strategies for dealing with contemporary environmental change.</p>Gwen Robbins Schug2012-01-19Broken Chains and Subverted Plans//florida.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5744/florida/9780813062457.001.0001/upso-9780813062457
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780813062457.jpg" alt="Broken Chains and Subverted PlansEthnicity, Race, and Commodities"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Christopher C. Fennell</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780813062457</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>University Press of Florida</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Archaeology, Historical Archaeology</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.5744/florida/9780813062457.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2017</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2017-09-21</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>Broken Chains and Subverted Plans: Ethnicity, Race, and Commodities examines the ways in which the large-scale development plans of Anglo-American governing officials and investors were subverted by the choices of individuals and social networks in the regions of Virginia and Illinois in the nineteenth century. The lessons from this study inform issues very current today, as economists and policy makers debate the best ways to create new markets and develop commodity chains of production and consumption spanning the globe. The backcountry of Virginia presents a story of German-American farmers utilizing ethnic social networks to take selective advantage of economic opportunities promoted by Anglo-American officials and investors. The region of Illinois illustrates the ways in which African Americans worked to overcome the overt and structural racism that shaped the availability of land and economic opportunities in the Midwest. These two case studies emerge from multi-year research projects in which Fennell served as a principal investigator, analyst, and archaeologist.</p>Christopher C. Fennell2017-09-21Water from Stone//florida.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5744/florida/9781683400097.001.0001/upso-9781683400097
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9781683400097.jpg" alt="Water from StoneArchaeology and Conservation at Florida's Springs"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Jason O'Donoughue</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9781683400097</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>University Press of Florida</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Archaeology, Historical Archaeology</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.5744/florida/9781683400097.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2017</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2018-01-18</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>Florida houses the densest concentration of artesian springs in the world. However, many springs are imperilled by pollution, development, and groundwater extraction. Archaeologists have long recognized the importance of springs in the past, but typically focus solely on their ecological capacities. Meanwhile, contemporary conservation narratives rely on a trope of timeless, pristine springs that likewise downplays their historical significance. This book draws on recent archaeological research at a number of springs to examine their long-term significance and the relevance of archaeological knowledge to modern conservation efforts. Inspired by phenomenological philosophy, historical ecology, and entanglement theory, it develops an approach that foregrounds springs as places of social interaction with deep historical import.
The results of archaeological fieldwork, GIS-based spatial analyses, paleohydrological reconstructions, and lithic provenance and technological studies are presented. This work demonstrates the scale of human interaction with springs and decouples their significance from ecological productivity. Throughout their history, springs have been gathering places that brought together far-flung peoples. Many springs became sanctified in this context, as a result of their unique aesthetic qualities and the indelible marks left by past gatherings. The book further deconstructs the notion of “pristine spring” as a conservation goal and argues that, rather than looking back, conservation must target desirable future states. Springs continue to be social gathering places today. Conservation efforts should encourage this sociality while promoting personal experience of springs and greater historical consciousness. This will foster a sense of reverence for springs that bolsters public sentiment and political will for conservation.</p>Jason O'Donoughue2018-01-18Portmahomack//edinburgh.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748624416.001.0001/upso-9780748624416
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780748624416.jpg" alt="PortmahomackMonastery of the Picts"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Martin Carver</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780748624416</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Edinburgh University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Archaeology, Historical Archaeology</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.3366/edinburgh/9780748624416.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2008</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2012-09-20</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>This book relates the rediscovery of a monastery of the 8th century AD, one of the earliest so far seen in northern Europe. It lies in north-east Scotland in the land of the Picts, a largely forgotten people here shown to have been highly intellectual thinkers and consummate artists. The excavation, one of the largest to have taken place in Scotland, revealed burials in stone cists, over 200 pieces of carved stone grave markers and ornamented cross-slabs, workshops making sacred vessels and vellum for holy books, unusual bag-shaped buildings and a water-mill. The book has three parts: “Exploring”, “The Age of Fame” and :“Legacy”. It tells the story of the investigation, describes what was found and what it means for the history of Scotland and the understanding of early religion for us today. The book is provided at the back with a Digest of Evidence, summarising the archaeological finds, layers, features, structures and the results of survey, making it handy for student use at school and university and essential for fellow archaeologists.</p>Martin Carver2012-09-20Marcus Simaika//cairo.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5743/cairo/9789774168239.001.0001/upso-9789774168239
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9789774168239.jpg" alt="Marcus SimaikaFather of Coptic Archaeology"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Samir Simaika, Nevine HeneinDonald M.ReidDonald M. Reid</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9789774168239</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>American University in Cairo Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Archaeology, Historical Archaeology</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.5743/cairo/9789774168239.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2017</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2018-01-18</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>Marcus Pasha Simaika (1864–1944) was born to a prominent Coptic family on the eve of the inauguration of the Suez Canal and the British occupation of Egypt. From a young age he developed a passion for Coptic heritage and devoted his life to shedding light on centuries of Christian Egyptian history. His achievement lies in his role as a visionary administrator who used his status to pursue relentlessly his dream of founding a Coptic Museum and preserving endangered monuments. During his lengthy career—first as a civil servant, then as a legislator and member of the Coptic community council—Marcus Simaika maneuvered endlessly between the patriarch and the church hierarchy, the Coptic community council, the British authorities, and the government to bring them together in his fight to save Coptic heritage. This biography draws upon Simaika's unpublished memoirs as well as on other documents and photographs from the Simaika family archive to deepen our understanding of several important themes of modern Egyptian history: the development of Coptic archaeology and heritage studies, Egyptian–British interactions during the colonial and semi-colonial eras, shifting balances in the interaction of clergymen and the lay Coptic community, and the ever-sensitive evolution of relations between Copts and Muslims.</p>Samir Simaika and Nevine Henein2018-01-18Cuban Archaeology in the Caribbean//florida.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5744/florida/9781683400028.001.0001/upso-9781683400028
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9781683400028.jpg" alt="Cuban Archaeology in the Caribbean"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>IvanRoksandicIvan RoksandicUniversity of Winnipeg</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9781683400028</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>University Press of Florida</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Archaeology, Historical Archaeology</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.5744/florida/9781683400028.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2016</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2017-05-18</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>Cuba is not only the largest island of the Caribbean but also the most centrally located one, as it is accessible from the mainland by different routes and was therefore subject to several waves of migration. The history of the early colonization of this island—and of the Greater Antilles in general—is extremely complex. The research initiatives presented in this book strive to solve some of the main problems in understanding that complexity, and to give answers to key questions regarding the patterns of successive migrations and colonization of the island, the patterns of interaction between the foraging and the agriculturalist groups, and the fate of the indigenous groups at the time of contact with the Spanish. A methodical multidisciplinary approach, necessary to tackle the full scope of the proposed research questions, is reflected in the variety of the contributions included in this volume, such as archaeology, physical anthropology, environmental archaeology, paleoecology; paleodemography; isotope analysis; bathymetry; paleobotany; linguistics; and ethnohistory. While the immediate focus of the book is region-specific, it will also contribute to ongoing debates in anthropological archaeology concerning migration and colonization; the importance of landscape and seascape in shaping human experience; the role that contact and interaction between different groups play in building identity; and the contribution of native groups to the biological and cultural identity of post-contact and modern societies.</p>Ivan Roksandic2017-05-18Frontiers of Colonialism//florida.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5744/florida/9780813054346.001.0001/upso-9780813054346
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780813054346.jpg" alt="Frontiers of Colonialism"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Christine D.BeauleChristine D. BeauleUniversity of Hawai'i, Manoa</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780813054346</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>University Press of Florida</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Archaeology, Historical Archaeology</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.5744/florida/9780813054346.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2017</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2018-01-18</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>Archaeologists are hindered by the self-imposed boundary between historic and prehistoric archaeology, and assumptions about different rates and kinds of cultural continuity and change before and after the arrival of Europeans. The central objective of this edited volume is to call critical attention to two particular intra-disciplinary boundaries, and their dampening effect on fruitful cross-cultural and cross-temporal comparison. Contributors collectively challenge archaeologists’ self-imposed theoretical frontiers between European/non-European and prehistoric/historic case studies of colonialism. One way to begin to explore, and eventually explain, variability in colonial administrative strategies, local forms of resistance to cultural assimilation, native‐native interactions, hybridized cultural traditions, and other impacts of cross‐cultural interaction, is to bring together archaeologists working in very different regions and time periods.
Case studies of colonialism drawn from around the globe also reveal that many of the features we associate with colonialism may not be present at all, or may only appear in very different forms than we expect. The effects of colonialism and colonization in local contexts are highly variable. By including several regions (e.g., the Philippines, Pacific, China, and Egypt) alongside better known cases of colonialism (e.g., Mesoamerica, the Andes, North America, and Britain), that heterogeneity may take surprising directions. This unusual set of case studies extends existing scholarship on colonialism by encouraging archaeologists to seek comparative parallels in untapped scholarship on other regions and time periods.</p>Christine D. Beaule2018-01-18Ritual, Violence, and the Fall of the Classic Maya Kings//florida.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5744/florida/9780813062754.001.0001/upso-9780813062754
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780813062754.jpg" alt="Ritual, Violence, and the Fall of the Classic Maya Kings"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>GylesIannoneGyles IannoneTrent UniversityBrett A.HoukBrett A. HoukTexas Tech UniversitySonja A.SchwakeSonja A. SchwakeFranklin and Marshall College</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780813062754</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>University Press of Florida</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Archaeology, Historical Archaeology</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.5744/florida/9780813062754.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2016</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2017-01-19</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>The age-old “scapegoat king” model suggests that Maya kings, like their counterparts in other early states throughout the world, were held responsible for the prosperity of their kingdoms. When they failed to meet their obligations, kings and their courts were subject to various forms of “termination,” including ritual defacing and destruction of their monuments, the breakage and burning of key symbols of authority, decommissioning of royal residential courtyards, and even violent death. This volume evaluates the explanatory potential of the scapegoat king trope using a series of such events, all of which occurred in different parts of the southern lowlands during the tumultuous three decades between AD 800 to 830. The results of this inquiry provide some key insights into the sociopolitical transformation that has long been referred to as the Maya “collapse.” The Maya kings discussed in this volume are deemed to have been sacred or divine due to their special ritual status and their association with prosperity and fertility. However, by the end of the ninth century most of the kings were gone and the kingship institution was moribund. This book asks the question why, but it does not stop at an overarching hypothesis of environmental failure; instead, it offers several Maya polities as examples of precisely what happened at different times and in different places.</p>Gyles Iannone, Brett A. Houk, and Sonja A. Schwake2017-01-19Bones of Complexity//florida.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5744/florida/9780813062235.001.0001/upso-9780813062235
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780813062235.jpg" alt="Bones of ComplexityBioarchaeological Case Studies of Social Organization and Skeletal Biology"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Haagen D.KlausHaagen D. KlausGeorge Mason UniversityAmanda R.HarveyAmanda R. HarveyUniversity of Nevada, RenoMark N.CohenMark N. CohenSUNY Plattsburgh</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780813062235</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>University Press of Florida</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Archaeology, Methodology and Techniques</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.5744/florida/9780813062235.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2017</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2018-01-18</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>The histories of many human societies over the last ten millennia have been characterized by increasing social complexity and economic inequality. This phenomenon ranks among the intellectually pressing anthropological questions about human history that also holds great relevance to help understand modern social challenges. Drawing upon diverse studies of human remains from ancient Egypt, Greece, China, and the Americas, this volume is the first to bring together physical anthropologists, archaeologists, and economists to better understand the wide range of effects of social complexity upon human biology in the past. The authors encounter many different kinds of entanglements between sociopolitical organization, economic variation, and inequality. This book shows how bioarchaeology provides a key voice to help to better understand and navigate contemporary issues of social complexity and inequality in terms of the forces and factors that impact human biology and health. This book contribute greater perspective toward understanding the present day and perhaps point toward some potential direction of the near-term human future.</p>Haagen D. Klaus, Amanda R. Harvey, and Mark N. Cohen2018-01-18Mississippian Mortuary Practices//florida.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5744/florida/9780813034263.001.0001/upso-9780813034263
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780813034263.jpg" alt="Mississippian Mortuary PracticesBeyond Hierarchy and the Representationist Perspective"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Lynne P.SullivanLynne P. SullivanUniversity of Tennessee, Robert C. Mainfort</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780813034263</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>University Press of Florida</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.5744/florida/9780813034263.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2010</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2011-09-14</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>The residents of Mississippian towns principally located in the southeastern and midwestern United States from 900 to 1500 A.D. made many beautiful objects, which included elaborate and well-crafted copper and shell ornaments, pottery vessels, and stonework. Some of these objects were socially valued goods and often were placed in a ritual context, such as graves. The funerary context of these artifacts has sparked considerable study and debate among archaeologists, raising questions about the place in society of the individuals interred with such items, as well as the nature of the societies in which these people lived. By focusing on how mortuary practices serve as symbols of beliefs and values for the living, this book explores how burial of the dead reflects and reinforces the cosmology of specific cultures, the status of living participants in the burial ceremony, ongoing kin relationships, and other aspects of social organization.</p>Lynne P. Sullivan and Robert C. Mainfort2011-09-14How Ancient Europeans Saw the World//princeton.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.23943/princeton/9780691143385.001.0001/upso-9780691143385
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780691143385.jpg" alt="How Ancient Europeans Saw the WorldVision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Peter S. Wells</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780691143385</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Princeton University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Archaeology, Historical Archaeology</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.23943/princeton/9780691143385.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2012</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2017-10-19</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools, a money economy, and elaborate rituals and ceremonies. Yet as this book argues, the visual world of these late prehistoric communities was profoundly different from those of ancient Rome's literate civilization and today's industrialized societies. Drawing on startling new research in neuroscience and cognitive psychology, the book reconstructs how the peoples of pre-Roman Europe saw the world and their place in it. It sheds new light on how they communicated their thoughts, feelings, and visual perceptions through the everyday tools they shaped, the pottery and metal ornaments they decorated, and the arrangements of objects they made in their ritual places—and how these forms and patterns in turn shaped their experience. The book offers a completely new approach to the study of Bronze Age and Iron Age Europe, and represents a major challenge to existing views about prehistoric cultures. It demonstrates why we cannot interpret the structures that Europe's pre-Roman inhabitants built in the landscape, the ways they arranged their settlements and burial sites, or the complex patterning of their art on the basis of what these things look like to us. Rather, we must view these objects and visual patterns as they were meant to be seen by the ancient peoples who fashioned them.</p>Peter S. Wells2017-10-19Global Environmental History//edinburgh.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748621583.001.0001/upso-9780748621583
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780748621583.jpg" alt="Global Environmental History10,000 BC to AD 2000"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Ian Simmons</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780748621583</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Edinburgh University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.3366/edinburgh/9780748621583.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2008</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2012-09-20</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>In the last 12,000 years, human societies have moved through phases of forager, agricultural, industrial and ‘post-industrial’ economies. Each of these has been affected by the natural world and in turn has changed the workings of the non-human or ‘natural’ components of this planet. For each of these phases the author discusses questions of population growth and distribution together with the technologies available to the human groups of the time. Overall there is no doubt about the central role of access to energy flows and storage in making possible the life ways of many diverse groups. In addition to these basic chronicles the author is at pains to include the question of how these economies and ecologies are represented in today's cultural frameworks. The theme of scale pervades the book. A distinction is made between processes which affect many parts of the world but are not coalescent (‘worldwide’) and those which penetrate the entire biophysical entity and to which the term ‘global’ can truly be applied. Despite the current levels of anxiety about human-environmental relationships this book concentrates on environmental history and not prophecy. There is though a parting shot to the effect that history is probably not a good guide to human futures.</p>Ian Simmons2012-09-20Fit for War//florida.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5744/florida/9781683400059.001.0001/upso-9781683400059
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9781683400059.jpg" alt="Fit for WarSustenance and Order in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Catawba Nation"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Mary Elizabeth Fitts</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9781683400059</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>University Press of Florida</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Archaeology, Historical Archaeology</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.5744/florida/9781683400059.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2017</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2018-01-18</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>In the mid-eighteenth century, the towns of the Catawba Nation were located near Nation Ford, where the main trading path that traversed the southern Appalachian Piedmont crossed the Catawba River. By serving as auxiliaries for the English colonies—particularly South Carolina—Catawba men from these communities had achieved notoriety and helped maintain the political autonomy of the Nation. However, this militaristic strategy precipitated a set of processes that transformed the conditions of daily life near Nation Ford. Two of these processes were settlement aggregation and the incorporation of native refugee communities. This book examines whether the political process of centralization through which refugees were incorporated into the Catawba Nation was accompanied by parallel changes in economic organization, particularly with regard to foodways. It also examines the impacts of settlement aggregation on the formulation of community identities. By combining information from historic documents and previously unpublished data from Catawba archaeological sites, this study provides access to the daily lives of the people living around Nation Ford during the mid-eighteenth century. Archaeological materials provide details concerning the activities of Catawba women, who played a large role in making pottery, farming, and collecting wild foods. When a food security crisis struck the Nation between 1755 and 1759, it was these women who worked to overcome the long-term effects of Catawba militarism. Ultimately, this study highlights the double-edged nature of strategies available to American Indian groups seeking to maintain political autonomy in early colonial period contexts.</p>Mary Elizabeth Fitts2018-01-18Disease and Discrimination//florida.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5744/florida/9780813062693.001.0001/upso-9780813062693
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780813062693.jpg" alt="Disease and DiscriminationPoverty and Pestilence in Colonial Atlantic America"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Dale L. Hutchinson</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780813062693</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>University Press of Florida</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Archaeology, Historical Archaeology</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.5744/florida/9780813062693.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2016</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2017-01-19</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>This book is a series of narratives about the changing landscapes of America—not only the natural landscapes, but the social, political, and economic landscapes—and how they all contributed to the nutrition and health of natives and newcomers in the Atlantic coastal colonies. The narratives are neither exhaustive nor completely factual representations but try to present accurate depictions of how certain processes and events likely influenced health outcomes, by discussing not so much what did happen, but the environmental, political, and social dynamics that put certain subsets of the population at risk for suffering from malnutrition or disease. Disease and Discrimination takes its title from the differential health risks that a majority of those who built America suffered due to their lower economic and social status. The establishment of permanent settlements, other types of built environments, and social change were all integral in the changing patterns of health in the American Atlantic colonies, not only for native populations, but also for the European colonists who inaugurated and directed their construction, and the Africans and others who provided labor.</p>Dale L. Hutchinson2017-01-19Ritual and Archaic States//florida.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5744/florida/9780813062785.001.0001/upso-9780813062785
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780813062785.jpg" alt="Ritual and Archaic States"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Joanne M.A.MurphyJoanne M.A. MurphyUniversity of North Carolina, Greensboro</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780813062785</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>University Press of Florida</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Archaeology, Historical Archaeology</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.5744/florida/9780813062785.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2016</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2017-05-18</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>Ritual and the archaic state have both been prominent topics in recent archaeological literature, provoking complex debates about their defining characteristics and their archaeological signatures. This volume offers fresh perspectives on both subjects by uniting these two streams of scholarship in an exploration of the varying nature, expression, and significance of ritual in archaic states. Within archaic states, rituals—both secular and sacred—frequently command considerable investments of time, space, and energy. The level of investment in ritual, its nature, and its socio-political significance can vary greatly from state to state, even among societies with similarities in social complexity, population size, and spatial distribution. This volume includes two broad theoretical chapters that incorporate archaeological data to support their models, six detailed case studies, and a discussion chapter. With papers from both the old and the new worlds, this volume allows us to explore ritual in the context of a limited range of social complexity, yet affords us the chance to see how—even within close neighboring states or within the same cultures—the location, frequency, and role of rituals differed significantly.</p>Joanne M.A. Murphy2017-05-18Mythic Frontiers//florida.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5744/florida/9780813062532.001.0001/upso-9780813062532
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780813062532.jpg" alt="Mythic FrontiersRemembering, Forgetting, and Profiting with Cultural Heritage Tourism"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Daniel R. Maher</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780813062532</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>University Press of Florida</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Archaeology, Historical Archaeology</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.5744/florida/9780813062532.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2016</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2017-01-19</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>Mythic Frontiers examines how what we call the American frontier functions as a narrative for silencing the violent, oppressive, colonizing forces of manifest destiny by othering those who stood in its way and by elevating its principal architects to mythic heights. The frontier complex is organized into five eras: removal (1804–1848), restraint (1848–1887), reservation (1887–1934), recreation (1920–1980), and redoubling (1980–present). By the time Frederick Jackson Turner declared the frontier closed in 1893, it had been fully constituted in popular mythologies and fantastic frontier narratives such as Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West shows. It was this imagined frontier, converted into Wild West films and television programs, which filled the popular imagination by the mid-twentieth century. The National Park Service, state parks, and museums enshrined the mythologized frontier as history. In Fort Smith, Arkansas, this imagined Wild West frontier is packaged for cultural heritage tourists. Colorful stories of “Hanging Judge” Isaac C. Parker, Deputy US Marshal Bass Reeves, brothel madam Laura Zeigler, “Bandit Queen” Belle Starr, and Cherokee “outlaws” Zeke Proctor and Ned Christie constitute the frontier complex, replete with nooses, gallows, restored bordello, and staged shootouts. These mythic tourist discourses effectively silence imperialism, racism, and sexism in the nation’s history, deny the role Fort Smith played in it, and function as a refuge for contemporary neoliberal ideologies. Meanwhile, disenfranchised peoples are relocated, developers prey upon our fears in a declining manufacturing economy, and “cruel optimism” is placed in the “Bring It Home” campaign of the US Marshals Museum.</p>Daniel R. Maher2017-01-19Rethinking Colonialism//florida.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5744/florida/9780813060705.001.0001/upso-9780813060705
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780813060705.jpg" alt="Rethinking ColonialismComparative Archaeological Approaches"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Craig N.CipollaCraig N. CipollaRoyal Ontario MuseumKatherine HowlettHayesKatherine Howlett HayesUniversity of Minnesota, Twin Cities</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780813060705</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>University Press of Florida</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Archaeology, Methodology and Techniques</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.5744/florida/9780813060705.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2015</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2016-01-21</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>This book brings together archaeologists specializing in Old and New World colonialism—both ancient and modern—to explore the major issues that cross cut their respective areas of study. In particular, contributors investigate colonial consequences by engaging in dialogue with one another over consumption practices, diaspora and movement, representations of time, and archaeology’s connection to descendant communities in contemporary practice and interpretation. Unique to this collection of essays, all contributors consider the implications of their respective studies and comparisons with other forms of colonialism in terms of the past, present, and future, especially with respect to heritage and memory. All chapters recognize the delicate balance that archaeologies of colonialism must maintain while coming to grips with the violent and disruptive nature of colonialism along with the creative and resilient reactions to colonialism among various groups enmeshed therein. The volume concludes with two discussion chapters that consider the implications of these examples of comparative colonialism for indigenous archaeology and the study of the modern world.</p>Craig N. Cipolla and Katherine Howlett Hayes2016-01-21Archaeology of Early Colonial Interaction at El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba//florida.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5744/florida/9780813061566.001.0001/upso-9780813061566
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780813061566.jpg" alt="Archaeology of Early Colonial Interaction at El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Roberto Valcárcel Rojas</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780813061566</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>University Press of Florida</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Archaeology, Historical Archaeology</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.5744/florida/9780813061566.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2016</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2016-09-22</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>Archaeology of Early Colonial Interaction at El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba, examines the interactions between indigenous peoples and European invaders in the Caribbean and the way in which domination imposed by a foreign model ultimately transformed this relationship into a system of colonial subordination. Investigations of the domestic and funerary contexts at the El Chorro de Maíta, in the northeast of Cuba, permit the archaeological visualization of the cultural and ethnic diversity imposed by colonial domination. Presented, for the first time, is the identification and archaeological study of an indigenous village that was transformed during the 16th-century into a town of Indian encomendados, which is to say working for the Spanish as forced labor. The study distinguishes the Christianization of the indigenous inhabitants, principally among those of elite status, and the process of ethnogenesis which gave rise to the “Indian” as a colonial category. This occurred in a scenario where indigenous mortuary practices were maintained, and handled and restricted the Hispanic material culture. It treats the process that created the cemetery with syncretic characteristics, in which there is an adjustment to a process of transculturation where the cultures and the individuals are transformed, and in which the indigenous peoples demonstrated a capacity for resistance and adaptation that is generally underestimated. This book demonstrates the value of archaeology to observe unrecorded episodes of Caribbean and American history that are vital for constructing the link with the pre-Columbian world and the construction of an integrated and new history.</p>Roberto Valcárcel Rojas2016-09-22The Maritime Landscape of the Isthmus of Panamá//florida.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5744/florida/9780813062877.001.0001/upso-9780813062877
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780813062877.jpg" alt="The Maritime Landscape of the Isthmus of Panamá"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>James Delgado, Frederick Hanselmann, Tomas Mendizabal, Dominque Rissolo</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780813062877</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>University Press of Florida</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Archaeology, Historical Archaeology</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.5744/florida/9780813062877.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2016</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2017-05-18</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>The Maritime Landscape of the Isthmus of Panamá provides a detailed overview of Panamá’s unique role as a land mass dominated by its relationship to the sea and how that relationship has defined the culture and history of Panamá for thousands of years. Ranging from prehistory to the modern era, with the well-known Panamá Canal as but one element in this story, the book discusses indigenous maritime culture over time, including the modern era, colonial and post-colonial maritime endeavors, the industrial age, and the creation of the canal.</p>James Delgado, Frederick Hanselmann, Tomas Mendizabal, and Dominque Rissolo2017-05-18